UNITED NATIONS (IRNA) -- Iranian Foreign Minister Manuchehr Mottaki, at a meeting with his Turkish counterpart Abdullah Gul here Monday night, voiced Tehran's dismay over the forced landing of an Iranian plane ordered by Turkish officials last Wednesday.

The meeting, which lasted hours, was held on the sidelines of the 61st United Nations annual General Assembly session in New York.

Gul promised to set up a committee to probe into the issue and assured Mottaki that he would inform the Iranian side of the result of the committee's investigations.

A Boeing 707 airplane, carrying several senior Iranian officials who were in President Mahmud Ahmadinejad's entourage during his official visits to Senegal, Cuba and Venezuela, was forced to land at Istanbul airport for several hours on grounds it did not have the permission to fly over Turkish air space.

The plane left Istanbul airport for Tehran later in the day following consultations between Iranian and Turkish officials.

Mottaki and Gul also discussed major regional and international developments including the situation in Iraq, Lebanon and ongoing talks on the nuclear standoff with Iran.

The two stressed the need to exchange views to strengthen Tehran-Ankara cooperation.

The Turkish minister said Ankara was happy that talks to resolve the nuclear issue with European countries would continue, and highlighted Iran's effective role in maintaining regional security.

Gul also took the occasion to invite Mottaki to visit Turkey in the near future.

Meanwhile, Iranian official in another separate meeting held talks with UN General Assembly chairwoman.

During the meeting, the Iranian Foreign Minister stressed the need for the reinvigoration of the General Assembly and the necessity for campaigning against unilateralism in the world.

He said that the General Assembly, as the only body of the UN, which is formed of all the member states, can and should play a more active and effective role in the maintenance of international peace and security and restoration of the legal rights of the world states. The top diplomat further reminded that some of the United Nations member states strive to elevate their status to a superior position and decide and act on behalf of others through misusing their membership in the UN Security Council, "while 118 member states of the Non-Aligned Movement have all condemned unilateralism and stressed the necessity for multilateralism in their recent meeting in Havana."

"Many of the problems of the international community today are multifaceted and global and require global solutions through participation of all the world states," he continued. Also noting Iran's nuclear plans, the Foreign Minister stressed, "As we have already told the United Nations Secretary General Mr. Kofi Annan in Tehran, a limited number of the countries in the UN Security Council cannot speak on behalf of the world public opinion; it should be remembered that the Non-Aligned Movement has voiced its strong support for the restoration of Iran's nuclear rights within the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)."

For her part, Chairwomen of the UN General Assembly Haia Rashed al-Khalife pointed to her interests in Iran and Iranian culture and further reiterated the need for the strengthening of the role of the UN General Assembly in accordance with the UN Charter.

She also called on the United Nation member states to strive to materialize this goal as a further step towards establishment of international peace and stability.

Rashed al-Khalife is the third woman to preside the United Nations General Assembly in the last 60 years.

The UN General Assembly was presided by two chairwomen, one from India and the other from Liberia in the years 1953 and 1969 respectively.